You may already be familiar with
the WebKit Nightly, which serves a purpose similar to that of Safari Technology Preview.
Safari Technology Preview is a mix of the stability we expect from Safari with the iterative energy of
WebKit nightly builds.
This change will bring IE to the same level as
WebKit Nightly, Firefox beta and Chrome.
Apple also says it will look to
WebKit nightlies for inspiration for Safari Technology Preview, but that it won't necessarily work the tech found in those nightlies into the new browser.
It's meant for Web developers who want to build for incoming standard technology, not as a stable version of
WebKit nightlies.
Not exact matches
Safari Technology Preview is aimed at giving developers a way to access new web technologies Apple is planning to implement in iOS and OS X, offering an early look at new developer tools, layout technologies, visual effects, and more.According to TechCrunch, Apple's goal with Safari Technology Preview is to gather feedback from developers on its browser development ahead of launch through a method that's more easily accessible than
WebKit.Of course, Apple has for a long time offered
Nightly builds of
WebKit, the open source browser engine that today runs on hundreds of millions of devices and powers Apple's Safari.
Whether or not a runtime flag should be on or off on
WebKit trunk (and thus in
nightly builds) depends on the maturity of the feature, both in terms of its spec stability and implementation maturity.